Placket facing



S. M. MOSES FLACKET FACING Nov. 17., 1925 'Original Filled March 8f 1922 f7@ Z Patented Nov. 17,1925.

UNITED STATES SAMUEL M. MOSES, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

PLACKET FACING.

Application filed March 8. 1922, Serial 7'0 @ZZ 107mm it may concern:

Be it hereby known that I, SAMUEL M. Moses, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Portland, in the county of Mult nomah and State of Oregon, have invented Va new and useful Placket Facing` of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates more particularly to a class of manufactured garn'lents which are sold to the trade partly finished, that is to say having all of the machine work done and which are ready for hand work, although it is evident that it can be used equally well under other conditions.

The object of my invention is to provide an exceedingly simple means for forming a placket.

I accomplish this result in the manner set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in

which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a section of a garment showing the first operation, of which Figure 2 is a plan. Figure 3 is a front elevation showing the second operation, of which Figure f1 is a plan. Figure 5 is a front elevation showing the third opera tion, of which Figure 6 is a plan. Figure 7 is a front elevation showing the fourth operation which results in the completed article, of which Figure 8 is a plan.

Similar numbers of reference refer to the same or similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring in detail to the drawing, I have illustrated my invention in connection with a portion of a childs garment on which is stamped the neck line 11 and the dotted cutting line 12 which are approximately in the form of circles. Attached by the two seams 13 and 14 to the garment 10` is a rectangular piece 15. A cutting line 16 is indcated between the seams 13 and 14..

The next step illustrated in Figure 3 consists in cutting apart the seams 13 and 14 along the line 16. The third operation consists of turning inwardly the narrower por- Ne. 541,903. Renewed January 7, 1925.

tion 17 which forms the placket facing, folding under the raw edge 15% and sewing along the seam 19, which of course leaves the facing 17 on the under side, as shown in Figure It will be seen that in Fig. (l the folds of cloth are illustrated openly, or not creased along the seam 13, in order to better illustrate the union of the two pieces of cloth.

In Figures 7 and 8 I illustrate the facing 17 as flattened out as it would be in actual practice, and the manner of forming the extension 20 by turning the portion 2O underneath the facing 17 and then folding' same back and sewing its turned edge 21 by means of the seam 22 over the seam 14. A small cross seam 23 may be sewed across the bottom of the placket joining the facing 17 to the extension 20.

It will be seen that this operation may be very easily performed and enables anyone with a very small knowledge of sewing to take an article in either of the forms shown in Figure 1 or Figure 7 and complete same by doing the necessary hand work.

Inasmuch as a large portion of this class of goods is sold to parties not having or desiring to use a machine for the purpose it will be seen that to provide them with an article upon which the machine work has already been performed will be affording them no small convenience.

I am aware that plackets have been made in great numbers with. varying degrees of inconvenience for the maker, I therefore do not claim this article broadly but only within the limits set forth in the following claim.

What I claim as new is:

A method for forming plackets consisting of double seaming a rectangular piece of cloth over the location for the placket, cutting said seams apart and turning the flaps inwardly 'through the opening in a manner to form a placket facing and placket extension.

SAMUEL M. MOSES. 

